Writer Quotes
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“Who am I? I'm just a writer. I write things down. I walk through your dreams and invent the future. Sure, I sink the boat of love, but that comes later. And yes, I swallow glass, but that comes later.”
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“It's in those quiet little towns, at the edge of the world, that you will find the salt of the earth people who make you feel right at home.”
― 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
― 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
“Life's trials will test you, and shape you, but don’t let them change who you are.”
~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive”
― 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive”
― 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
“She needed the chaos within her in order to discover the extraordinary no man could ever reach.”
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“I always thought old age would be a writer’s best chance. Whenever I read the late work of Goethe or W. B. Yeats I had the impertinence to identify with it. Now, my memory’s gone, all the old fluency’s disappeared. I don’t write a single sentence without saying to myself, ‘It’s a lie!’ So I know I was right. It’s the best chance I’ve ever had.”
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“Why do I write?
To be somewhere else
To get free of ourselves
To stop
To stop being anything or anywhere at all
To disappear”
― Fangirl
To be somewhere else
To get free of ourselves
To stop
To stop being anything or anywhere at all
To disappear”
― Fangirl
“I need you because I know I deserve you but let me fall in love with you one last time before I let go. So I can remember the beautiful imperfection that rattled my bones.”
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“Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth.”
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“From this point forward, you don’t even know how to quit in life.”
~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive”
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~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive”
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“To be a writer you have to write -- and no academic degree is going to do the writing for you. ”
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“She had more of me then I had of myself. We were both wild birds chasing the stars. We’d lose our way and find new places, close our eyes and fall back towards a constellation of dreams. We wrapped ourselves in a blanket of passion and each night we fell deeper without control, into this strange space called love.”
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“At some point, you just gotta forgive the past, your happiness hinges on it.”
― 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
― 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
“All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.”
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“When you write about what you dream, you become a writer.
When you dream about what you write, you become haunted by a curse.”
― Poetry Eyes
When you dream about what you write, you become haunted by a curse.”
― Poetry Eyes
“She doesn't understand that a writer is a special creature--that I'm different from everyone else. I'm not saying I'm superior to other people, just more sensitive, I guess.”
― Bloodsucking Fiends
― Bloodsucking Fiends
“You can't make a fan of everyone. Stay true to your story, characters, music, art or whatever it is you do and fuck everyone else who doesn't like it. Life isn't perfect.”
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“That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.”
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“There's more to a person than flesh. Judge others by the sum of their soul and you'll see that beauty is a force of light that radiates from the inside out.”
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“It's strange, isn't it. You stand in the middle of a library and go 'aaaaagghhhh' and everyone just stares at you. But you do the same thing on an aeroplane, and everyone joins in.”
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“A writer should not run around with a mirror for his countrymen; he should tell his society and his times things no one ever thought before.”
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“If you didn't earn something, it's not worth flaunting.”
― 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
― 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
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